It’s been a year since the last time that I shared my favourite tweets with you – so here are my favourite tweets for 2017! I’ve put them into a few categories (so, for example, if you aren’t interested in politics, you can skip the political ones), and added a few comments to provide context for some of them. Otherwise, they are in somewhat of a random order.

Cat tweets:

This one was posted on the first work day after the 2016 holiday season:

Nerdy tweets:

Political tweets (American politics):

After Trump’s White House made a rule that women that work there have to “dress like a woman”:

Political tweets (BC provincial election):

Local tweets:

On Oct 25, there was a traffic nightmare in the Lower Mainland, with a fire on the Patullo bridge and major accidents on other bridges and one of the highways. Despite the fact that I didn’t need to cross any of those bridges nor drive on that highway, all the people who would normally use that routes ended up on the route I take home from my work – my usual 30 minute drive to more than 2 hours! Hence this tweet made me laugh:

The big W art piece referenced in this tweet by the New West mayor is made of shipping containers:

This from a sandwich shop across the street from me. They heard Liam Neeson was in town, so they put out a chalkboard sign to attracted him. To their surprise, it worked:

The mayor replied with this:

Does your mayor ever referee professional wrestling matches in a mall? Mine does:

My own tweets:

I went to my first ever lacrosse game, which prompted these two tweets:

Tweets that I found amusing that don’t fit into the other categories:

I don’t actually follow Laureen Harper’s twitter account, but this one got re-tweeted a lot:

I like that she had to clarify that she did, in fact, tweet the above:

During one of the hurricanes this year, there was a raft of fire ants floating towards an exploded chemical plant: